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...Baghdad, Air Force One flew in under total cover of darkness, the shades drawn inside and with no headlights on, landing in one of the most dangerous cities on Earth. The plane roared over our heads as we stood waiting for an address in a huge hangar filled with 550 soldiers - a speech we had been told was to be by the U.S. administrator to Iraq, Paul Bremer. Bush's trip had been so tightly guarded a secret that White House officials told the tiny traveling press corps that if word leaked out that they were on their...
...UNVEILED. Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, dubbed "Little Boy," on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing up to 230,000 people; at a Smithsonian Institution hangar near Dulles Airport in Virginia. Japanese victims groups have protested the plan to put the plane on public display in December...
...Jiatai's disposable cups ought to runneth over. In 2002, says the entrepreneur from western China's Sichuan province, his private company made and sold $2.5 million worth of paper containers for food and beverages. He has four production lines making paper cups in hangar-like buildings, and 20 young women from the countryside toil in the yard beside them, pasting labels for White Family Potato Noodles onto single-serving bowls. Business has never been better. Yet Mao, like so many other owners of private companies in China, can't get funding to take his firm to a higher level...
...Jiatai's disposable cups ought to runneth over. In 2002, says the entrepreneur from western China's Sichuan province, his private company raked in $2.5 million in sales by manufacturing paper containers for food and beverages. He has four production lines making paper cups in hangar-like buildings, and 20 young women from the countryside toil in the yard beside them, pasting labels featuring words such as "White Family Potato Noodles" onto single-serving bowls. Business has never been better. Yet Mao, like so many other owners of private companies in China, can't seem to catch a break...
...billion, and counting. Her colleagues have been placed in handcuffs and led past TV cameras. Shareholders have lost some $3 billion since the news broke, and soon at least 17,000 WorldCom employees will have lost their jobs. In December, the company put a FOR SALE sign on the hangar that stored its corporate jets in Mississippi...